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'''SocialNet''' is an popular<ref>https://www.dataexpert.eu/products/osint-products-shadowdragon/socialnet/</ref> investigative tool produced by the company ShadowDragon, which is designed to analyze publicly available social media data across over 200 platforms.<ref>https://redact.dev/blog/you-are-being-watched-socialnet-surveillance-tool</ref> It can connect online aliases, identify related accounts, and map relationships between people and groups. It is marketed to law enforcement agencies and other investigators, to help them track down individuals of interest, as well as the people they associate with.<ref name="ShadowDragon">https://shadowdragon.io/products/socialnet/</ref>

'''SocialNet''' is an popular<ref>https://www.dataexpert.eu/products/osint-products-shadowdragon/socialnet/</ref> investigative tool produced by the company ShadowDragon, which is designed to analyze publicly available [[social media]] data across over 200 platforms.<ref>https://redact.dev/blog/you-are-being-watched-socialnet-surveillance-tool</ref> It can connect online aliases, identify related accounts, and map relationships between people and groups. It is marketed to [[law enforcement]] agencies and other investigators, to help them track down individuals of interest, as well as the people they associate with.<ref name="ShadowDragon">https://shadowdragon.io/products/socialnet/</ref>

{{cquote|Designed for investigators, SocialNet® enables real-time insight and helps uncover identities, relationships, and behavioral patterns to accelerate investigations and threat analysis.<ref name="ShadowDragon">https://shadowdragon.io/products/socialnet/</ref>}}

{{cquote|Designed for investigators, SocialNet® enables real-time insight and helps uncover identities, relationships, and behavioral patterns to accelerate investigations and threat analysis.<ref name="ShadowDragon">https://shadowdragon.io/products/socialnet/</ref>}}

==Legal considerations==

==Legal considerations==

Generally speaking, data analytics based on social media activity, are considered public information by most judges. Although users likely do not expect or intend their social media activity to be used in this way, the data is often publicly available, and therefore acceptable to use without a warrant, under US law.<ref>https://uslawexplained.com/osint</ref><ref>https://intellectsy.substack.com/p/the-fine-line-osint-legality-explained</ref>

Generally speaking, data analytics based on social media activity, are considered public information by most judges. Although users likely do not expect or intend their social media activity to be used in this way, the data is often publicly available, and therefore acceptable to use without a [[search warrant]], under US law.<ref>https://uslawexplained.com/osint</ref><ref>https://intellectsy.substack.com/p/the-fine-line-osint-legality-explained</ref>

==References==

==References==